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! colspan="89"|PC / x86

| [https://sameboy.github.io/downloads {{SameBoyVer}}]<br />[https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]| {{~}}<ref group=N name=sameboylink>SameBoy's libretro core supports Link Cable, standalone does not.</ref> ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-| [https://gbcc.dev GBCC]| align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}| [https://github.com/philj56/gbcc git]| {{~}}<ref group=N name=GBCClink>[https://gbccdocs.libretro.devcom/guides/ Only supports a fake "link" retroachievements/#game-boy-game-boy-color May have issues with itselfsome achievement sets for the time being, exclusive to libretro core].]</ref> ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}

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| [https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]<br/>[https://sourceforge.net/projects/gambatte/files/gambatte {{GambatteVer}}]| {{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}|-| [[Gearboy]]| align<ref group=N name=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}| ExLibretro>[https://githubdocs.libretro.com/drheliusguides/Gearboyretroachievements/releases {{GearboyVer}}#game-boy-game-boy-color Exclusive to libretro core]| {{✗}} .</ref> ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓~}} <ref group=N>libretro core is still active.</ref> ||{{✓}}

| {{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-| [http://emulicious.net Emulicious]| align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}| [https://emulicious.net/downloads {{EmuliciousVer}}]| {{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|[https://github.com/SourMesen/Mesen2 Mesen2]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}|[https://github.com/SourMesen/Mesen2/tags 2.0.0-preview1]| {{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}

| {{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}|-| [http://binji.github.io/binjgb/ binjgb]| align=left|{{Icon|Web}}| [https://github.com/binji/binjgb/releases {{binjgbVer}}]| {{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}

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| [[Gearboy]]| align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[https://github.com/Rodrigodddrhelius/Gearboy/releases {{GearboyVer}}]| {{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}<ref group=N name=ExLibretro></ref> ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}|-| [https://gameroy GameRoygbcc.dev GBCC]| align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}| [https://emuliciousgithub.netcom/downloads v0philj56/gbcc git]| {{~}}<ref group=N name=GBCClink>[https://gbcc.1dev/ Only supports a fake "link" with itself.1]</ref> || {{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}

| [http://emulicious.net Emulicious]GameRoy| align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSDWeb}}| [https://emuliciousgithub.netcom/Rodrigodd/downloads gameroy 0.2.0]| {{EmuliciousVer✗}}]|| {{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}

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| {{~}}<ref group=N name=mgbalink>[https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+Link Pretty buggy but sometimes works.]</ref> ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}<ref group=N name=ExLibretro></ref> ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}

| {{✓}} ||{{✓}}<ref group=N name=one>Full GBC, GBA and GB support since version 2.1.3.</ref> ||{{✓}}<ref group=N name=ExLibretro></ref>||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}

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|GameRoy[http://binji.github.io/binjgb/ binjgb]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|Web}}|[https://github.com/Rodrigoddbinji/gameroy 0.2.0binjgb/releases {{binjgbVer}}]| {{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}

| [http://byuu.org/emulation/higan {{higanVer}}]<br />[https://github.com/libretro/higan libretro core]| {{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}<ref group=N>[https://docs.libretro.com/guides/retroachievements/#game-boy-game-boy-color SGB only and exclusive to libretro core.]</ref> ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}

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;[[SameBoy]]:A relatively new emulator, probably One of the most accurate Game Boy emulator emulators currently. The UI is simple and easy to use. It includes open source bootroms, although these can be replaced with real ones. Also Has debugging features and also emulates Game Boy Camera and Game Boy Printer.;[[BGB]]:A closed-source emulator for Windows (and [[Wine]]) with excellent solid Game Boy and Game Boy Color accuracy, as well as near flawless link support. It has a wealth of options for color palettes and even enabling Super Game Boy colors and borders, though it doesn't emulate all of . Most used for its functions. It also has an advanced debugger.;[[Gambatte]]:Extremely Pretty accurate open-source Game Boy/Color emulator. It has a good range of options and features, though not quite as much as some other emulators. It has The main fork is not been as in active latelydevelopment, but the speedruning community took it in and works on updates.;[http://hhug.me/?tags=hhugboy hhugboy]:A Windows-only Game Boy/Color emulator based on GEST with a focus on bootleg and unlicensed games. It is capable of detecting and correctly emulating the mapper on a number of games that are otherwise broken on other emulators, but some ROMs require manually selecting the mapper on the Unlicensed Compatibility Mode menu. Besides the usual raw dumps, it also supports the footered [http://hhug.me/gbx GBX] ROM format, which correctly informs the emulator which mapper to run regardless of what the internal headers say.

;[[mGBA]]:Primarily emulates the [[Game Boy Advance emulators|Game Boy Advance]] but it also includes GB/C support much like the original system. It's still in development, but it's already on solid implementation with most of the level of many other emulatorslibrary working perfectly.

;[[higan]]/[[ares]]:Because it started out as a [[Super Nintendo emulators|SNES emulator]] (its original name was bsnes), it was the first and only one that properly emulated all of the [[Super_Nintendo_emulators#Super_Game_Boy|Super Game Boy]]'s features, such as SPC sound chip utilization, which requires the SNES and GameBoy to be emulated simultaneously so it's demanding.<ref>https://old.reddit. com/r/emulation/comments/zwq9fu/ares_crossplatform_open_source_multisystem/j1ys10k/</ref> Versions of bsnes at and before v073 used the Gambatte core for its Super Game Boy functionality, but byuu eventually made his own Game Boy core, which ended up having pretty good accuracy.

However, shit hits the fan it doesn't get better when it comes to '''unlicensed games''', since they didn't necessarily respect Nintendo's specifications about how a given mapper type should handle its memory and behave in general, and internal headers were often filled with erroneous data to hinder dumping and emulation efforts. Some emulators like MESS and [http://hhug.me/?tags=hhugboy hhugboy] try to emulate that behavior with various degrees of success ([http://hhug.me/dump/ Compatibility List]). The hhugboy project also proposed a similar solution to iNES for this mapper problem, as the [http://hhug.me/gbx/1.0 gbx ROM format] that appends a footer with extra information needed for some unlicensed games. However, this format, much less unlicensed hardware quirks, isn't widely adopted aside from tentative [https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/blob/master/README.md#game-boy-mappers mGBA support].